Asian studies

It is a branch of area studies, and many Western universities combine Asian and African studies in a single faculty or institute, like SOAS in London. It is often combined with Islamic studies in a similar way. The history of the discipline in the West is covered under Oriental studies.

The International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS) only considers Asia to the east of the Indus River in its scope of "Asian Studies".

Branches

• South Asian studies (Indology)
  • Bengal studies
  • Dravidian studies
    • Tamilology
  • Pakistan studies
  • Sindhology
• Southeast Asian studies
  • Filipinology (Philippine studies)
  • Thai studies
  • Vietnamese studies
  • Myanmar studies
  • Indonesian studies
• East Asian studies
  • Sinology (Chinese studies)
  • Taiwan studies
  • Japanese studies
    • Ainu studies
    • Okinawan studies
    • Ryukyuan studies
  • Jurchen studies
  • Khitan studies
  • Korean studies
  • Manchurology
  • Mongolian studies
  • Tangutology
  • Tibetology (Tibetan studies)
  • Uyghur studies
• Western Asian studies
  • Jewish studies
  • Iranian studies
• Central Asian studies
  • Turkology
• Semitic studies
  • Assyriology
  • Hebraic studies
• Jewish studies (often overlapping with Middle Eastern studies)
• Islamic studies (often overlapping with Middle Eastern and Central Asian studies)
• Middle Eastern studies or Near Eastern studies